On Saturday and Sunday Victorian jewelry, vintage clothing and linen, period oak furniture and antique Limoges dinnerware, as well as jukeboxes and Depression glass, are among the offerings by 150 dealers.

Their plunder: Victorian jewelry and old fruit-jar clamps worth nearly $3,000.

And I would have liked to pop into delightful little bistros every night of the week dressed in splashy fabulous or cool drapey clothing with Victorian jewelry.

"Things just came together: my needlework, hair from the Victorian jewelry and flowers from different cultures that use flowers to honor the dead," Ms. Sharrett said.

Hunting and riding were popular themes in Victorian jewelry.

Ms. Coyne had seen Victorian jewelry woven and braided from human hair in an exhibition, and she called on a researcher at the New York Public Library to find her an illustrated book about it.

Art, history and astronomy books, posters, Victorian jewelry, specially designed T-shirts, party favors, art- and science-related toys, mugs and handmade crafts are among the items for sale.

More recently, Miuccia Prada has covered herself in Victorian jewelry - nothing short of a chandelier - and brought back the rage for dangly intricate earrings and a décolletage full of dirty diamonds.

Inside the public school where the York Avenue market is held (some markets have both indoor and outdoor sections), Kitty Savage was buying gold Victorian jewelry from Michael Rabinowitz.

Later, I detoured to another store on 47th Street to visit a Jordanian friend who sells Victorian jewelry.